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Katherine Boyle is a Cambridge archaeologist affiliated with Homerton College (Fellow and College Lecturer in Archaeology & Biological Anthropology) and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Her academic role as a Research Fellow focuses on prehistoric human-environment interactions, with fieldwork spanning the Mediterranean and Western Europe.
Her research interests bridge Palaeolithic and Neolithic archaeology, emphasizing hunting specialization, landscape adaptation, and faunal exploitation patterns. Key themes include assessing how climatic shifts (e.g., Last Glacial Maximum) influenced technological organization and subsistence strategies.
The 15 most recent articles (limited to available data) highlight trends in Upper Palaeolithic zooarchaeology, Neolithic wild/domestic resource integration, and Gravettian-Aurignacian comparative analysis. Her work employs multidisciplinary methods like ZooMS, LA-ICP-MS, and AMS dating to explore behavioural variability and technological equivalence.
Boyle co-edits major monographs through the McDonald Institute, including Rethinking the Human Revolution and The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution in Global Perspective. Her collaborations with institutions like the Duckworth Laboratory and Archaeological Science Laboratories underpin data-driven interpretations of prehistoric societies.
